In the founding of 1904, the International Research Club made it clear that the membership was “absolutely limited to men”, the brotherhood of the heart that flew new routes through “open and wild places of the earth”.
The provider includes Roald Amunden, leader of the first team to reach the South Pole; Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay of Fame Mount Everest; And, in 1956, Frank Schreider, who drove with his wife from the Arctic Circle to the top of South America in the Ambibian jeep. They were the first people to travel in the length of America in an amphibian vehicle.
Frank and Helen Schreider continued to indulge in their wandering in India, Africa, the Middle East and the Amazon Basin, making documentaries and writing their long trips in books and articles for the National Geographic magazine.
It was not until 2015 – 59 years after her husband – Mrs. Schreider was introduced to the Explorers Club herself after she lowered her native barrier. Faany Rose, the first president of the club, told her: “You explored knowing that there was no recognition for women. It was just pure passion and pure curiosity.”
Mrs. Schreider, a former art student who always traveled with drawing pads and colored pencils to record her wide research, died on February 6 at Santa Rosa, California. She was 98 years old.
The niece, Camille Armstrong, said the cause was a stroke.
The Schreiders were part of the semi-gulan era of research, if bold transit could still draw on a globe that technology was not fully muffled, along with the manufacturer of Thor Heyerdahl rafts, the Marinera of the Deep Sea Jacques Piccard and others.
On the often painful journey made by the Schreiders from Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego, from 1954 to 1956, they started with angry parts of the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean to cope with the mountains without roads in their amphibious jeep, baptized La Tortuga (“effort”) and who had propeller.
The journey was recounted in the book “20,000 miles south” (1957), with Mr. Schreider’s text and Mrs. Schreider’s drawings, which was serialized on Saturday night.
While on a US tour with the footage they filmed on their journey, Schreiders met the president of the National Geographical Society, Melville Bell Grosvenor, who hired them as a teammate. They completed six long assignments for the National Geographic magazine from 1957 to 1969, starting with another trip to the Ambija jeep along the Ganges River in India.
They followed a 13-month trip through the Indonesian archipelago, which they recounted in the book “The Bubns of Tonkin” (1963).
The excursions by Land Rover followed, first in the large valley of Rift Africa and then a route of 24,000 miles from Greece to India at the footsteps of Alexander the Great.
Their last expedition, in 1969, was the copy of the Amazon River from its water waters in Peruvian Andes, for which they ranged in the small ship they built themselves. Their national geographical book “Amazon’s Research” (1970) has made a controversial claim that Amazon, not Nile, is the longest river in the world. (The Schreiders added a pair of pair in Amazon’s mouth in the total length, although others considered parallel part of the other system; Most cartographers today I agree that nil is longer.)
In the same year, 1970, the couple split with a magazine. They divorced a few years later and continued their individual career.
Mr. Schreider became a free writer and crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a 40 -foot sailboat, Sassafras. Was on a long -lasting cruise of the Greek islands in 1994 Died of a heart attack at the age of 79 on his plate.
Mrs. Schreider joined the service of the National Park as a museum designer. She created exhibitions within the Freedom statue for the two -year -old of the United States in 1976 and in the Yellowstone National Park.
Through her life, she painted portraits and landscapes in oil, inspired by her travels, which are shown in several solo exhibitions. She is included in the book “Women of the Photographer on National Geographic” (2000).
“She was loud to discover the world and beauty,” said Mrs. Armstrong, her niece, in an interview, adding that she was always close to her stock at hand. “She could literally get a whole drawing with 10 swing of a pen. She could catch moments moving through the villages.”
Helen Jane Armstrong was born on May 3, 1926 in C
She graduated with fine arts at the California University of Los Angeles, where she met Mr. Schreider, a student of engineers. They got married in 1947 while they were still undergraduate.
It was survived by brother Donald B. Armstrong and her 25 -year -old partner, John Ryan, a retired professor of geography at the University of Winnipeg. The second marriage, with Russia Hendrickson, ended with divorce in 1983.
The Schreider’s delayed trip plans became increasingly ambitious, until Mr. Schreider suggested driving all the way to the Arctic Circle to the top of South America.
Mrs. Schreider agreed, and the couple left the circle, Alaska, in Tundra without wood, June 21, 1954. The German Shepherd, Dinah, was for the trip.
Since the Pane -American motorway has not yet been completed through some mountainous items in Central America, Schreiders has renovated the Ambi Ford Jeep, which was produced during World War II, described by Mr. Schreider as a “wheel tub”, which he will take into the sea.
The dissatisfied La Tortuga first entered the Pacific Ocean in Costa Raf at surfing 10 feet, a scary experience for the couple who almost ended up their way.
“La Tortuga was breeding like a horse, Helen grabbed the dash, Dinah threw her on her back, and I held trembling behind the wheel,” Mr. Schreider wrote on “20,000 miles in the south.”
Later, the jeep passed the locks of the Panaman channel to the caroba, where the Schreiders were managed south, scheduled for the monthly supply of the C-Rici army. The islands are full of 250 miles, coming to the shore on the untouched beaches where the children covered La Tortuga in flowers.
After 30 days of the sea, they landed at Turbo in Colombia, where the customs official asked, “Is that a ship or a car?”
“It’s both,” Mr. Schreider replied.
At the southernmost top of the continent, there was a final amphibian crossing in Magellana current of 10 nodes, Tierra del Fuego, where they ended their trip on 2 January 1956.
Return home in the United States, Mrs. Schreider told a reporter journalist that she was “a game for anything.”
